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Senate clerks arrange 95 proposed amendments to the health insurance exchange bill at the statehouse in St. Paul, Minn., earlier this year.

Although a pair of Government Accountability Office reports released today appeared to cast a pall on the progress the federal government has been making in getting health insurance exchanges up and running, health industry observers say the reports are complimentary of Uncle Sam's progress and some politicians are reading in between the lines.

TAXES MAKE THE BIG DIFFERENCE IN SCORE OF IMMIGRATION BILL: In a boon to supporters of the Senate's immigration bill, Congress' nonpartisan budget scorekeeper found that the legislation would reduce the federal deficit by $175 billion in its first decade.

The IRS failed to give the House Small Business Committee requested documents on how the agency treats smaller companies by the requested date of Monday, the committee said Tuesday.

Anyone who owns a small business knows the difficulties faced in today's economy .

The National Shooting Sports Foundation , the trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry, today praised U.S. Rep. Sam Graves for his introduction of H.R. 2361, legislation intended to prevent states and municipalities from enacting or raising taxes or fees on the purchase of firearms or ammunition.

Takes two for tax reform: The Max and Dave show is rolling into downtown D.C. on Friday morning with an eye on touting the need for an overhaul of the tax code.

Joseph News-Press, June 1 Two years after a devastating flood, it's heartening to see life on the Missouri River.

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The House Small Business Committee issued the following news release: The House Small Business Committee, chaired by Rep. Sam Graves , today announced the schedule for the week of June 10, 2013: On Wednesday, June 12th, at 1:00 p.m., the Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access, under the ... (more)

U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna said today he wants to know if the Internal Revenue Service targeted small businesses for extra scrutiny for political reasons, as the agency has admitted doing with some conservative political groups.

On Friday, Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves sent a letter to acting IRS Commissioner Danny Warfel requesting more information about the way the IRS chooses small businesses to audit.

Around 200 lawmakers from the United States signed a letter asking President Barack Obama to include new guidelines against currency manipulation in a proposed trade deal with Japan and ten other countries in the Asia-Pacific area.

What started as a scandal over the IRS's targeting of conservative groups has broadened, with lawmakers and other critics now questioning whether other kinds of organizations were unfairly flagged for additional scrutiny.

GRAVES WANTS TO KNOW: WERE SMALL BUSINESSES TARGETED TOO? The chairman of the Small Business Committee is getting in on the scrutiny of the Internal Revenue Service, pressing the agency for answers on whether it inappropriately targeted small businesses along with conservative groups.

The House Small Business Committee is pressing the new IRS chief over the agency's treatment of smaller companies, in an attempt to broaden out the current controversy over the agency's targeting of conservative groups.

Rep. Sam Graves is adding two Department of Transportation rules to his Small Biz Reg Watch, an online list of pending rules that could have adverse impacts on small businesses.

Louis pharmaceutical company is wrong for marketing its pseudoephedrine product to imply methamphetamine cannot be made with it.

Legislation to muzzle Medicare auditors has received the biggest hospital lobbying push this year - so far, to little effect.

The employer mandate under Obamacare is clear: Starting in 2014, "large employers" with 50 or more full-time employees must start providing insurance.

The U.S. federal government owes 1,281 small businesses approximately $3 million collectively in termination fees.